The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals

Suga, Hiroshi, Chen, Zehua, de Mendoza, Alex, Sebé-Pedrós, Arnau, Brown, Matthew W., Kramer, Eric, Carr, Martin, Kerner, Pierre +11 more·2013·Nature Communications
DOI 10.1038/ncomms3325

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